The CAMELS Project: Public Data Release

The first WASP public data release

The WASP (wide angle search for planets) project is an exoplanet transit survey that has been automatically taking wide field images since 2004. Two instruments, one in La Palma and the other in South Africa, continually monitor the night sky, building up light curves of millions of unique objects. These light curves are used to search for the characteristics of exoplanetary transits. This firs...

Northern Sky Variability Survey: Public Data Release

The Northern Sky Variability Survey (NSVS) is a temporal record of the sky over the optical magnitude range from 8 to 15.5. It was conducted in the course of the first-generation Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE-I) using a robotic system of four comounted unfiltered telephoto lenses equipped with CCD cameras. The survey was conducted from Los Alamos, New Mexico, and primarily ...

The Challenges of Preparing Sensitive Data for Public Release

Survey piactitioners arechallenged to meet he ever rising demand for microdata fdes while protecting the confidentiality of the individual data provider. Data pmcessing tools are becoming quite sophisticated which is an aid to survey practitioners, but also a potential tool to data snoops. Additionally, there is a percqtioo that participation in surveys is declining world wide; partially due to...

Bio-Mirror project for public bio-data distribution

Timely worldwide distribution of biosequence and bioinformatics data depends on high performance networking and advances in Internet transport methods. The Bio-Mirror project focuses on providing up-to-date distribution of this rapidly growing and changing data. It offers FTP, Web and Rsync access to many high-volume databanks from several sites around the world. Experiments with data grids and...

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